The Thin Red Line

You'd better sleep with your rifle Keep your powder dry You'll be fighting for your country See the colours fly They'll be coming in the morning boys You gotta hold the line You're the men from Harloch You'll be standing proud You're the Queen's light infantry Sing out loud They'll be coming in the morning boys You gotta hold the line You came for the glory To fight and to die You stood in the thin red line Remember the heroes When stories are told They died in the thin red line In the thin red line Stand steady in the ranks boys You gotta hold your fire We'll show 'em what we're made of When they hit the wire They'll be coming in the morning boys You gotta hold the line You'll be thinking of your loved ones That you left back there Then the sound of the bugle Cuts the cool night air They'll be coming in the morning boys You gotta hold the line You came for the glory To fight and to die You stood in the thin red line Remember the heroes When stories are told They died in the thin red line In the thin red line Now you lay with your comrades Far across the sea Where you're fighting for the Empire Did you die for me They'll be coming in the morning boys You gotta hold the line You'd better sleep with your rifle Keep your powder dry You'll be fighting for your country See the colours fly They'll be coming in the morning boys You gotta hold the line You came for the glory To fight and to die You stood in the thin red line Remember the heroes (remember the heroes) When stories are told They died in the thin red line You came for the glory (you came for the glory) To fight and to die You stood in the thin red line Remember the heroes (remember the heroes) When stories are told They died in the thin red line In the thin red line